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Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Sands Point, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
5, 1882.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter and editor; received the Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for a
series of articles titled "Inside the German Empire"; executive
editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his leadership, the
newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service
in 1922, for reporting on the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940;
elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
English,
German,
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
following surgery for an intestinal
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1958 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope; married 1912 to
Margaret Honeyman Powell. |
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article |
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William Cabell Bruce (1860-1946) —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Charlotte
County, Va., March
12, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1894-96; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1924;
U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1923-29; defeated, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Recieved a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for his book Benjamin
Franklin, Self-Revealed.
Died in Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md., May 9,
1946 (age 86 years, 58
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Md.
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Henry Watterson (1840-1921) —
also known as "Marse Henry" —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
16, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
editor, Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876
(Temporary
Chair), 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1884,
1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1892;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1876-77; received the
Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, 1918.
Methodist.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., December
22, 1921 (age 81 years, 309
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) —
also known as Booth Tarkington —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., July 29,
1869.
Republican. Novelist;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1903-04.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, 1919, for The
Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 19,
1946 (age 76 years, 294
days).
Entombed at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevenson Tarkington and Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington;
brother-in-law of Ovid
Butler Jameson; married, June 18,
1902, to Laura Louisa Fletcher; married 1912 to
Susannah Kiefer Robinson; nephew of Newton
Booth; uncle of John
Tarkington Jameson and Donald
Ovid Butler Jameson; grandnephew of William
Clayborne Tarkington; first cousin of Fenton
Whitlock Booth. |
| | | Political family: Booth-Tarkington-Jameson
family of Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| | | Tarkington Hall, at Purdue University,
in West
Lafayette, Indiana, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Booth Tarkington: The
Gentleman from Indiana (1899) — In
The Arena : Stories of Political Life (1905) |
| | | Fiction by Booth Tarkington: The
Turmoil — Alice
Adams — Penrod
and Sam — The
Magnificent Ambersons — Penrod —
Seventeen —
Gentle
Julia — Ramsey
Milholland — The
Conquest of Canaan — The
Two Vanrevels — Harlequin
and Columbine — The
Beautiful Lady — Monsieur
Beaucaire — The
Gibson Upright — The
Guest of Quesnay — His
Own People — Women —
Beasley's
Christmas Party |
| | | Books about Booth Tarkington: James L.
Woodress, Booth
Tarkington : Gentleman from Indiana — Keith J.
Fennimore, Booth
Tarkington |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, December
21, 1925 |
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Highland
County, Ohio, October
6, 1862.
Lawyer;
historian;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1899-1911; defeated, 1914 (Progressive),
1922 (Republican); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1900,
1904
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1908,
1920,
1924
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1912; received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography,
1920.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April
27, 1927 (age 64 years, 203
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Henry Beveridge and Frances Eleanor (Parkinson) Beveridge;
married, November
24, 1887, to Katherine Maude Langsdale; married, August
7, 1907, to Catherine Spencer Eddy; father of Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge Jr.. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Albert J. Beveridge: The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835
(1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815
(1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 (1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker
(1916) — Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 (1928) — The
Art of Public Speaking (1924) — The
Meaning of the Times, and Other Speeches (1908) — The
Russian Advance (1904) — The
State of the Nation (1924) — What
Is Back of the War (1915) |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, December 1902 |
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Charles Warren (1868-1954) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 9,
1868.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to Gov. William
Eustis Russell, 1893-94; candidate for Massachusetts
state senate, 1894, 1895; author; historian;
assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1914-18; received a Pulitzer
Prize in history, 1923, for his book History of the United
States Supreme Court.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
16, 1954 (age 86 years, 160
days).
Interment at Vine
Hills Cemetery, Plymouth, Mass.
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William Allen White (1868-1944) —
also known as "The Sage of Emporia" —
of Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan.
Born in Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan., February
10, 1868.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Independent candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1924.
Received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for his editorial, "To An
Anxious Friend".
Died in Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan., January
29, 1944 (age 75 years, 353
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, Kan.
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Jay Norwood Darling (1876-1962) —
also known as Jay N. Darling;
"Ding" —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Norwood, Charlevoix
County, Mich., October
21, 1876.
Republican. Cartoonist;
received the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons in 1924
and 1943; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1932;
founder and first president, National Wildlife Federation; head of
the U.S. Biological Survey (which later became the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service), 1934-35; obtained millions of acres for wildlife
refuges.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
Died January
12, 1962 (age 85 years, 83
days).
Interment at Logan
Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.
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John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) —
also known as John J. Pershing; "Black
Jack" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Laclede, Linn
County, Mo., September
13, 1860.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920;
his autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1932.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 15,
1948 (age 87 years, 306
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) —
also known as Bill Mauldin —
of New York.
Born in Mountain Park, Otero
County, N.M., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist,
starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times
newspapers,
winning the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945
and 1959; appeared as an actor
in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge of
Courage; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1956.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease and pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., January
22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Albert Michener (1907-1997) —
also known as James A. Michener —
Born in Doylestown, Bucks
County, Pa., February
3, 1907.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author;
received the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, 1948; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1962; received the
Medal
of Freedom, 1977.
Died in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., October
16, 1997 (age 90 years, 255
days).
Interment at Austin
Memorial Park, Austin, Tex.; cenotaph at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) —
also known as Arthur Miller —
of Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1915.
Democrat. Playwright;
author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible";
received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was
suspected
of ties to Communist
organizations, his passport was
denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political
colleagues, and was found
guilty of contempt
of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968.
Agnostic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116
days).
Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
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George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) —
also known as George F. Kennan —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
16, 1904.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1952; Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union declared
him persona
non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 Pulitzer
Prize in History for his book Russia Leaves the War;
received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his
Memoirs; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
17, 2005 (age 101 years,
29 days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) —
also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K.";
"Lancer" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 29,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
received a 1957 Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in
Courage; President
of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; American
Legion; Elks.
Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Shot
by a sniper,
Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a
motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital,
Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177
days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John
F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy;
step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married Newton
Ivan Steers Jr.); brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia
Joan Bennett); married, September
12, 1953, to Jaqueline
Lee Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III); father of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who
married Arnold
Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
B. Connally — Henry
B. Gonzalez — Henry
M. Wade — Walter
Rogers — Gerry
E. Studds — James
B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark
Dalton — Waggoner
Carr — Theodore
C. Sorensen — Pierre
Salinger — John
Bartlow Martin — Abraham
Davenport |
| | | The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
(opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River from
Jeffersonville,
Indiana, to Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. half dollar coin. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles
in Courage (1956) |
| | | Books about John F. Kennedy:
Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK
: Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An
Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael
O'Brien, John
F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask
Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed
America — Thomas Reeves, A
Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy —
Chris Matthews, Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero — Shelley Sommer, John
F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kennedy:
Seymour Hersh, The
Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK:
the Man and the Myth |
| | | Image source: Warren Commission report
(via Wikipedia) |
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John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Rogersville, Hawkins
County, Tenn., November
2, 1872.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1913.
Editor of the Arkansas Gazette newspaper,
which won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in
1958.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., December
28, 1972 (age 100 years,
56 days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist,
magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter,
director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
newspaper
in New York City; in November, 1960, while drunk
at a party, he stabbed
and wounded his wife, Adele; he was arrested
and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually pleaded
guilty to third-degree
assault; arrested
and jailed
in 1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction
in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Interment at Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
11, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer Prize in
History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation: My Years In
The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James MacGregor Burns (b. 1918) —
also known as James M. Burns —
of Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
3, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; author;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1958.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Received Pulitzer Prize in history, 1971.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns; married 1942 to Janet
Rose Dismorr Thompson; married 1969 to Joan
Simpson Meyers. |
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Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. (1945-1994) —
of Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Jacksonville, Onslow
County, N.C., August
18, 1945.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lost both
legs in the explosion of an improvised land mine in South
Vietnam, 1968; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1978; received a
Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his autobiography, Fortunate
Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet.
Killed by a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., May 11,
1994 (age 48 years, 266
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Osborne Dapping (1880-1969) —
also known as William O. Dapping —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 12,
1880.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor and publisher; received a Pulitzer Prize Special
Citation in 1930, for the Auburn Citizen's coverage of an
inmate uprising at the Auburn prison; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1936.
Universalist.
Member, Elks.
Died August
1, 1969 (age 89 years, 50
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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